{"id":8276,"date":"2020-05-08T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2020-05-02T21:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T01:03:49","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-may-8-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8276","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen we look at an icon, as we commonly say, we are looking at a window to heaven! We are seeing through the paint and the wood, to the real person \u2013 whether Christ or one of His Saints \u2013 whom we know to be with our Father in heaven right now. When we look at an icon of our Lord and start praying, our prayers are directed to Christ, not to an icon.\u2019<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pravmir.com\/author\/user_1362659878\/\">Elissa Bjeletich<\/a>,,\u00a0 \u2018Raising Saints\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8277\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/zPV323715.b-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/zPV323715.b-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/zPV323715.b.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen we look at an icon, as we commonly say, we are looking at a window to heaven! We are seeing through the paint and the wood, to the real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8278,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions\/8278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}